Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco newshawks who tried to see Doris Duke, 20, richest ($53.000,000) U. S. heiress, daughter of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, were received by her half-brother Walker Patterson Inman. who said Heiress Duke was compelled to leave San Francisco as soon as her presence there became known, that she avoids photographers for fear her features will become easily recognizable to cranks and extortionists. "Everywhere we go it's the same," complained Mr. Inman. "She gets to see a few of the sights, goes out to dinner a few times and then her identity becomes...
Every packet of rank, loose-rolled Canarias that Spaniards smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
Before the rage of Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...
...instruments which President Roosevelt has set up to help the farmer are many. Since May the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has applied its domestic allotment plan (reduction of production compensated by the proceeds of processing taxes) to wheat, cotton, tobacco, hogs. Loans of 10? a lb. are planned for cotton farmers agreeing to crop reduction. In addition, for producers of rice, fruit, peanuts and milk, AAA arranged marketing agreements which were calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration...
Turkey's Three-Year Plan was launched after Dictator Kemal's right- hand man, Premier Ismet, had visited Moscow and Rome (TIME, June 13, 1932), arranged for the barter of Soviet and Italian machinery in exchange for Turkey's tobacco, cotton and other natural products...